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GC29: GamifiKaizen: Using gamification for continuous improvement | with Gal Rimon of GamEffective

Engaging Leader

GamEffective strives to be the “Fitbit of work,” taking the place of traditional performance management, feedback, and even continuous improvement practices such as kaizens. The most effective gamification makes use of intrinsic drivers to engage employees. The most effective gamification makes use of intrinsic drivers to engage employees.

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Toyota Under Fire

CEO Blog

Instead of firing employees like many other large firms were doing at the time, Toyota embraced its mantra of kaizen (Toyota’s firm philosophy of change/improvement for the better) and held company-wide training seminars (most impressively in factories it had stopped production in).

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Possibility Maximizer: Management Improvement Carnival

Sales Wolf Blog

 The Management Improvement Carnival naturally features posts on how improve your management skills and systems within your organization, but also has a special focus on how this can be accomplished using lean management practices such as Kaizen, Six Sigma, and even Hansei.  Enjoy! .  And, by the way.  Enjoy! .

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Five Perspectives To Evaluate Your Experiences: Revise

Tim Milburn

The Japanese call this “kaizen&# or continuous improvement. . · Making minor changes instead of major ones. The classic line of “not wanting to throw the baby out with the bathwater&# is part of the revise perspective. It sees improvement as a direction or trajectory, getting rid of waste or unproductive practices along the way.

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ASA Deming Lecture by Brent James: Long Term View of the Healthcare System

Deming Institute

2010 ASA Deming Lecture – “Dr. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician. Guest post by John Hunter , who founded curiouscat.com in 1996. Deming Consults on Quality for Sir William Osler” by Brent James , Institute for Health Care Delivery Research. Brent James has worked at Intermountain Healthcare for several decades.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

In one of his conversations found on YouTube and posted on January 11, 2010 (the year following his death), Dr. Ackoff provides the following insight about leaders doing the “right and wrong” things in the systems they lead: Peter Drucker said “There’s a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.” 2010, January).

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Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective

Deming Institute

2010, Sir William Osler: Dr. Deming Consults on Quality. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician. We have now added blog posts on nearly all ASA Deming lecture from 2009 through 2017, the others are: 2009, J. Stuart Hunter (Princeton University), New Challenges for Statisticians. 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor?

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